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Textual Features | Amelia Beauclerc | This novel is heavy-handedly moralistic. The heroine, Miriam Harcott, is the child of an atheistical philosopher (converted in the end by a good—not Methodist—clergyman) and a careless mother who causes the deaths of three of... |
Textual Features | Frances Burney | Evelina opens with an ode to Charles Burney
(unnamed) as Author of my Being, which sounds like an apology for having written. Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 37 |
Textual Features | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | This epistolary novel charts the growth of love between two innocent, idealistic youngsters who barely understand their own feelings; the girl (named Olivia, like Owenson's sister
) is betrothed to someone else. Rousseau
's Nouvelle... |
Textual Features | Jane Welsh Carlyle | The conversational style of Jane's writing (with its casual tone, frequent underlinings and dashes) and her literary tastes are also illustrated in these early letters to Bess. Recomending Rousseau
's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloïse... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Hamilton | Again EH
takes the radicals as her target. The phrase modern philosophers was in common use: the Gentleman's Magazine had turned it on Mary Wollstonecraft in reviewing her first major political work. Yet Hamilton makes... |
Reception | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The Monthly Review was on the whole complimentary. It judged the novel to be original and entertaining, though it complained of a few Hibernicisms and grammatical errors. It concentrated, oddly, on the Don Zulvago plot... |
Reception | Amelia B. Edwards | John Cordy Jeaffreson
gave two full Athenæum columns to Half-a-Million of Money, but largely in order to complain that in spite of its unusual plot the novel was essentially derivative, and sapped his confidence... |
Publishing | Mary Wollstonecraft | It was dedicated to the French statesman Talleyrand
, a supporter of the Revolution and the reputed lover of Germaine de Staël
. She produced a second, revised edition by the end of the year... |
Publishing | Germaine de Staël | GS
released a limited edition of Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.-J. Rousseau (Letters on the Works and Character of Jean-Jacques Rousseau). Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 118 |
Publishing | Anne Bannerman | Robert Anderson
's Edinburgh Magazine published work by AB
under the pseudonym Augusta: two sonnets and a verse translation from Rousseau
. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 131 |
Publishing | Harriet Martineau | |
Occupation | Iris Murdoch | Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato
to Arthur Koestler
. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 52-3. 52 |
Literary Setting | Amelia B. Edwards | Half-a-Million of Money has an ingenious, if somewhat schematic plot. Its hero, Saxon Trefalden, has been brought up in Switzerland (his native country) by an aged uncle, a pastor, according to the principles of Rousseau |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | The Critical Review, which had praised AO
's earlier work, thought this novel equally well done, and that the description of the heroine's death could stand comparison with those of Richardson
's Clarissa or... |
Literary responses | E. Arnot Robertson | J. B. Priestley
, focussing on the noble-savage aspects of this story, complained that its characters do not really come from Borneo, they come from Rousseau
and cloud-cuckoo land. Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, p. vii - xix. ix |
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